GroupSoft’s expertise in Merchandise and Assortment Planning extends beyond the four key areas – strategy, location, merchandise, and assortment planning – to link to markdown planning, shelf optimization, style management, purchasing, and allocation capabilities.
With SAP MAP GroupSoft brings a fully integrated retail planning solution to its customers with real-time performance metrics and powerful planning and simulation capabilities. SAP MAP has the ability to not just to plan but also to execute. Assortments based on local customer preferences are easy to build and analyse, and our customers can profitably balance their most controllable investment – the merchandise inventory. The result is that finance, merchandising, store operations, and your trading partners are all planning and executing according to common objectives.
With GroupSoft as IT Partner, retailers can Optimise every sales channel through SAP MAP, which delivers data from a single, central source and provides top management with the tools they need to make profitable decisions. Retailers can create long-term, companywide, and channel-specific strategic plans using quantitative performance measures such as market share, sales growth, and overall profitability targets. When a retailer has found the winning strategy, he/she can cascade these plans down to lower levels – for detailed merchandise, location, and assortment planning at the click of a mouse.
GroupSoft retail process understanding can help retailers in their Merchandise planning by incorporating the science of forecasting sales and managing inventories and balancing it with the art of identifying the merchandise their customers need. SAP Retail Merchandise and Assortment Planning helps ensure that the right products are in the right stores at the right time – and at the right price.
POWERFUL PLANNING CAPABILITIES
- Use values from previous year / season / month to “Incubate” new plans.
- Incorporate seasonality and fashion trends in your plans through long-range forecasting techniques
- Roll up and roll down plans from any level
- Plan units, cost, or retail in every currency
- Use SAP Best Practices templates for faster time-to-benefit
- Use automated alert to analyze in-season plans on an exception basis
- Control your merchandising system’s procurement/OTB, allocation, product creation, and markdown processes through open interface.
- Connect SAP Retail MAP to SAP Retail for the ultimate integrated retailing solution.
- Propose in-season markdowns automatically, based on business rules you define.
- Attach documents, including Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, or CAD drawings, to any level of the plan.
- Let stores, field associates, and suppliers plan collaboratively using the Web-based front end.
- Help ensure 100% process compliance by using business workflow functions.
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